"This program is an in-depth exploration of stroke - prevention strategies, the warning signs, early treatment and continuing recover. Interviews with three neurologists are interspersed with short clips of couples describing the onset of their strokes. Viewers learn about the newest technologies for reducing brain damage through early treatment of stroke in the emergency room. Rehabilitative measures to retrain the body after the stroke are also...

"Provides basic consumer health information about stroke prevention, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and rehabilitation strategies. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--

"At age 37, Harvard neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a massive left-hemisphere stroke that took away her ability to speak, walk, read, write, or remember any of her life-and gave her an unprecedented, profound experience of dwelling in the right hemisphere and the sense of oneness and peace to be found there. Her recovery led to her writing the New York Times bestseller My Stroke of Insight, being named one of Time Magazine's Most Influential...

"A funny, moving memoir about a son's discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and love. Peter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all her favorite dishes. The problem is, although he was raised to love food and wine he doesn't really know how to cook. So he embarks upon an often hilarious and always touching culinary...

A failed Brooklyn writer visits his ailing parents in Florida whose mother has Alzheimer's and father who recently had a stroke.